Lionel Trilling Book Award Winners

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Winners

	Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman 4.47 avg rating — 3,376 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pietro Bembo on Etna by Gareth Williams 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli 4.02 avg rating — 128 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen 3.99 avg rating — 85 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity by Zainab Bahrani 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi 3.89 avg rating — 161 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents by Boris Gasparov 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by David B. Lurie 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro 4.03 avg rating — 1,650 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manilius and his Intellectual Background by Katharina Volk 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower 4.19 avg rating — 2,407 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad 3.79 avg rating — 321 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India by Sheldon Pollock 3.78 avg rating — 74 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco 4.03 avg rating — 412 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greek Mythography in the Roman World (Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies, No. 48) by Alan Cameron 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology by Philip Kitcher 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William V. Harris 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. by Nicholas B. Dirks 3.75 avg rating — 134 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books) by Jonathan Crary 3.97 avg rating — 124 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene 4.09 avg rating — 96,138 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of 'Ayn al-Qudat by Hamid Dabashi 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State by Robert C. Lieberman 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	System Effects by Robert Jervis 4.06 avg rating — 69 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States by William H. Sewell Jr. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas 3.90 avg rating — 168 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama 4.19 avg rating — 1,137 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA by Robert Pollack 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling by Diana Trilling 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said 4.17 avg rating — 5,181 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Retelling / Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times by Karl Kroeber liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings Lionel Trilling Book Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars